AS2 - Duplicate movieClip, and send it to back

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I am building a Tic Tac Toe game where I duplicate a movieClip “oh” and it is placed on a Tic Tac Toe board by snapping it to a position.
This works, however when it duplicates movieClip “oh”, it puts it on top of everything else. I need to have “oh” below another movieClip on the stage, “my_mc”.

Here’s my code:

function pcturn() {
// lengthy game code omitted

duplicateMovieClip("oh", "oh"+tmp, tmp);

_root["oh"+tmp]._x = _root["rc"+tmp]._x;
_root["oh"+tmp]._y = _root["rc"+tmp]._y;

my_mc.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth());
my_mc.swapDepths(+1000);
my_mc.swapDepths(oh);
oh.swapDepths(-1000);

}

None of the last four lines of code do not work. I need “oh” to go below “my_mc”.

I’ve tried placing the swapDepths code in an onEnterFrame function, on and inside my_mc, and elsewhere in the main timeline, but nothing works to bring it to the top.

Any help would be appreciated.

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If you call getDepth on the various elements that you’re trying to move around, do the values make sense?

Are all of the MovieClips direct children of _root?

That seems like it could be dangerous, since you’re eating up 1000 depths, it seems, per frame. Rather than just one or two when someone makes a tic-tac-toe move.

It also looks like you haven’t tried: _root["oh" + tmp].swapDepths(my_mc).

Really? From the rest of your post’s description, it sounds like you want "oh" + tmp to go below my_mc, because it’s the one that has been newly duplicated. Referencing oh by itself will target the old copy, not the new copy.

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Thank you for the reply Krilnon.

I am a bit of a noob, and I did not realize that duplicated movieClips are given new names until I read your reply.

As they are duplicated, the movieClips are named like so: “oh11”, “oh12”, “oh13”, etc.

I changed my code to reflect the new names, and removed other unnecessary code that I had been trying.

oh11.swapDepths(-19);
ex11.swapDepths(-18);
oh12.swapDepths(-17);
ex12.swapDepths(-16);
oh13.swapDepths(-15);
//etc

Works smoothly now. :smile: Thank you for the advice.

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